DAY 29: "If You Are Going To Act Like A Turd, Go Lay In The Yard..."

DAY 29:  Steamboat Springs, CO
TEMP:  79 Degrees

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, 

but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."  

Frederick Keonig

I am so very grateful......

.....for my dear friends who remind me of the meaning of the quote above...

As you may recall, I was a little......well......"in a bit of a tizzy" in yesterday's blog.  It had been a very long day of driving; both in the RV and on the motorcycle and it just seemed that each and every thing I did was wrong.  They were minor things, I know, but HUGE to me at the time.  I was tired, frustrated and in desperate need of a pity-party with my friends.

But a good friend of mine, Regina, came forward and gave me a gentle loving nudge and reminded me how BLESSED I am......not only to be seeing this magnificant country of ours with the man I love; but to be living a life that most would give their right arm to be doing, making memories that will last a lifetime and beyond......and in a cooler climate at that!  Basically, in "Liz-language" she was saying, "Stop your belly-aching, pitiful whining, Liz, and be grateful for all the things that are going "right" in your life."

That takes a good friend to call a turd a "turd"......and I love this girl Regina for that!

So, from this moment forward, I am going to choose not to see the rough rocks in the road that cause me stress and frustration.......hindering me from seeing the......

.....smooth, sweet-smelling, flower-edged path that we are BLESSED enough to be traveling....

Thanks Regina, for reminding me to focus on the things that are important and to blur out the things that aren't.

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."  

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